Word: religio
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...washed electronic hallucinations: Fervent crowds at barricades, media helicopters overhead, an air of anger/ardor/faith all mingled - a sort of religio-political hysteria, posters held up like icons, T-shirts of the boy worn like scapulars: The child-cult of the Boy on the Dolphin and of his mother, the Drowned Madonna. Visions of Freedom for the boy, or of honorable Martyrdom earned in saving him from Going Back. The dream looked something like the early scenes of "La Dolce Vita...
...dream, vast acreage on the center of the front page of the New York Times ("All The News That's Fit to Print," grave chronicler of wars and famines and NASDAQ plunges) is given over to the Boy and the Attorney General and the Dictator and the religio-political mob scene. Turn on the television and on every news channel the mob scene springs to life - famous Hispanic singer passionately orates, cops reinforce barricades with chains, the Boy is seen coming down the sliding board, laughing...